Day: December 4, 2017

Top Links

• Windows 10 SDK Preview Build 17046 now available (Clint Rutkas)
• TWC9: Connect(); On-Demand, Dev’s Guide to Azure, Future Workspace, Furby Hacking and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Greg Duncan, Damian Brady & Christina Warren)
• C# Interactive in Rider and More debugger features in ReSharper (Maarten Balliauw)
• Azure Cloud Shell – your own bash shell and container – right inside Visual Studio Code and Accelerated 3D VR, sure, but impress me with a nice ASCII progress bar or spinner (Scott Hanselman)

Web & Cloud Development

• Polyglot Developer – Day 1 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” and Web Host Builder in ASP.NET Core 2.0 – Day 2 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” and TagHelper syntax for View Components – Day 3 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” and The Front-End Developer Toolset – Day 4 – 24 days of “Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap” (Simone Chiaretta)
• Choosing the JavaScript Framework for Your Next Enterprise-Grade App (Carl Bergenhem)
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 61 – Java in Azure Function with VS Code (Michael Crump)
• Design Patterns in JavaScript, Part 1 (Puneet Sharma)
• Getting Started with Entity Framework Core: Building an ASP.NET Core Application with Code First Development (Vincent Maverick Durano)
• Calling an Azure AD B2C-secured ASP.NET Core Web API 2 from JavaScript (Sara Ford)
• TypeScript 2.4: Weak Type Detection (Marius Schulz)
• Learn ES6 with Advent of Code-Day 2 and Advent of Code Day 3–Eternal Generators (Mark Heath)
• Introduction To Bots (Mahesh Chand)

XAML, UWP & Xamarin

• Skixam: SkiaSharp as a Platform for Xamarin.Forms (Proof-of-concept) and Flutter Could Be Xamarin’s Next Big Competitor (Adam Pedley)
• Google native login with Xamarin.Forms (Daniel Causer)
• Xamarin Forms 101: How to include a video player in your Xamarin App (Devlin Duldulao)

Visual Studio & .NET

• MediatR 4.0 Released (Jimmy Bogard)
• Creating tree view check boxes manually: Themed check boxes (Raymond Chen)

Design, Methodology & Testing

• Agile Approaches Require Management Cultural Change (Johanna Rothman)
• Announcing JUnit Support for Visual Studio Code (Xiaokai He)
• VSTS: YAML Build Definitions (Eric Williams)
• Continuous Testing of a Java Web App in VSTS using Selenium (Gouri Sohoni)
• An unusual scenario for Release Management, part 1: testing SonarQube upgrades and An unusual scenario for Release Management, part 2: production SonarQube upgrades (Matteo Emili)
• Roll-up Board Widget goes wide (Willy-P. Schaub)

Mobile & IoT

• Telepresence Robot Project (Greg Duncan)
• Create your own animated emojis with Unity! (Jimmy Alamparambil)
• Oreo Notifications: Channels – Part 1 (Mark Allison)

Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos

• Technology & Friends – Cecil Phillip on Away From the Keyboard (David Giard)
• Observed Tech PODCAST Episode 253 #OTP (Richard Hay)
• CodeNewbie S2:E6 – Who decides the future of CSS? (Jen Simmons) (CodeNewbie Team)
• Durable Functions in Azure Functions (Scott Hanselman & Rob Caron)
• Xamarin Podcast: Xamarin.Forms 2.5.0, Live Player, and What’s New in Visual Studio for Mac (Pierce Boggan)
• Developer on Fire Episode 292 | Amir Fassihi – Study Love (Dave Rael)
• The Amp Hour #370 – Alternate Info Sources (Dave Jones & Chris Gammell)
• Merge Conflict Episode 74: App Distribution, the Hard Way (Frank Krueger & James Montemagno)
• Women in Biz and Tech Podcast – Driving innovation with Accessibility Architect Mary Bellard (Microsoft)
• StarTalk Radio – Cosmic Queries: Mysterious Cosmology, with Sean Carroll (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
• #ifdef PROMO | #ifdef WINDOWS (Nikola Metulev)
• Windows Weekly 546: A/B Testing (Paul Thurrott)
• Software Engineering Daily – Serverless Scheduling with Rodric Rabbah (Jeff Meyerson)
• Developer Tea – The Power of A Question (Jonathan Cutrell)

Community & Events

• Ending the Kickstarter (Shawn Wildermuth)
• Xamarin Developer Events in December (Jayme Singleton)
• SQL in the City Streamed – Virtual Event on December 13 2017 (Pinal Dave)
• Behind the Scenes @ our Hackathon: Join the Hunt and Ship Intelligent Apps (Rob DeRosa)
• Why I Participate in #PayToSpeak (Sarah Dutkiewicz)

Database

• Cascading Update and Delete for SQL Server 2017 Temporal Tables (Ameena Lalani)
• How to use Azure SQL Database features and settings (Vitor Montalvao)

Miscellaneous

• ‘Project Rome’ makes Microsoft Cloud the OS for everything (Jason Ward)

More Link Collections

• Windows App Developer Links – 2017-12-04 and Xamarin App Developer Links – 2017-12-04 (Dan Rigby)
• The Morning Brew #2477 and The Morning Brew #2478 (Chris Alcock)
• Double Shot #1986 (Mike Gunderloy)
• Weekly C# Digest Issue #183 (Jakub Chodounsky)
• F# Weekly #49 – F# Advent Calendar in English 2017 starts soon! (Sergey Tihon)
• Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.12.01 (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Last Week on Channel 9: November 17th – December 3rd, 2017 (Greg Duncan)
• Reading List (Bruce Lawson)
• Happy December! Welcome Back To The Friday Five (MVP Award Program)
• Reading Notes #307 (Frank Boucher)
• Collective #371 (Pedro Botelho)

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